What is the Outlook on US-China Relations?
Tune in for a special recording between Pantheon Insights founder Dimitri Zabelin and three geopolitical experts on the US-China rivalry.
What is the state of affairs between the US and China and can their relationship be mended?
Earlier this month, I held a panel discussion on the outlook of US-China relations with three subject matter experts on geopolitics to answer these questions and more.
The speakers were:
Zongyuan Zoe Liu, PhD, CFA from the Council on Foreign Relations, and author of Sovereign Funds: How the Communist Party of China Finances Its Global Ambitions
Agathe Demarais from the European Council on Foreign Relations, and author of Backfire: How Sanctions Reshape the World Against U.S. Interests
Bethany Allen, a reporter from Axios, and author of Beijing Rules: How China Weaponized Its Economy to Confront the World
We discussed a number of topics at the geopolitical frontier policymakers and C-suite executives alike are tackling. Here are a few questions the panelists and I discussed:
- Do you believe US-China relations are past a point of no return? In other words, is the new geopolitical secular trend one of increasing antagonism?
- The Belt and Road Initiative is a major, global endeavor, with over 70% of the world's countries signed onto it. How feasible is this project and has it lived up to its expectations?
- Is it a matter of if or when China invades Taiwan?
- Given China's structural challenges (e.g. declining demographics, precarious property market dynamics) how much power/financial heft does China really wield?
These are just some of the topics we explored in-depth over the course of our +1 hour discussion. For those who missed it, you can view the recording here.
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